Exposing Corruption: EK’s Prison Threats, Lawsuits, Dangerous Workplace, & Leaked Documents
Exposing Corruption: EK’s Prison Threats, Lawsuits, Dangerous Workplace, & Leaked Documents
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This whole situation is insane, I hope the former employees get paid their fair share .
Steve explaining the organization chart was a little humorous in a “wtf” type of way
Wow it was just the tip of the iceberg
So… Cash flow was literally just the straw that broke the camel’s back…
How much of this crap was done while Eddie was ceo and how much after he had someone else take over
oh boy, here we go again…
Outstanding journalism from GN
EK’s officers should be held liable.
I am floored at the level of investigative journalism GN goes to now. It’s brilliant. I enjoyed every minute of watching this and hope everyone worded or still works for ek is helped by this.
TL;DR
EK Cooling Solutions has:
* Threatened former/current employees with fines and jail time
* Called the foreign news coverage (EK Solutions is based in Slovenia) by GN as “fake news”
* Has documented OSHA violations
* Has documented cases of racism towards its sole black employee
* Owns one content creator in particular (Jays2cent) 6 figures for unpaid services
* Has a hostile workplace culture documented in internal communications
* Is basically insolvent at both their Austin location and Slovenia
* The EK Slovenian Employee Handbook is in violation of US laws
* EK management spends lavishly on marketing while not paying employees/vendors
* Previous EK rep attempted “catch-and-kill” when confronted by Steve regarding supressing negative news about EK
* They are in deep trouble in Texas for not paying taxes
In hindsight [this is very interesting](https://gamersnexus.net/industry/3125-ek-wb-ceo-cto-dev-team-let-go).
2006 to 2013 with Edvard in charge the company had grown to 12 employees, Matjaž had been there since 2006. Mark Tanko took over in Sep 2013 and grew the business to over 90 employees, and building the reputation of the company. Edvard then sacked him and his team and led the company with Matjaž from Oct 2017 to Mar 2019. Edvard also brought in former Kat Silberstein in 2018 to lead their USA operations from Slovenia.
Edvard then appointed long term employee Matjaž as CEO in Mar 2019. However Edvard never stepped away from the company. He states on Linkedin he was still involved with R&D and Strategy, was visible on their youtube channel and posted press releases on their website. Like he announced Kat as CEO of EK CS in July 2019, he attended Expo’s putting himself forward as the founder.
I believe it’s disingenuous for Edvard to act like the only issue was late payments and he came in Feb 2024 to clean up Matjaž and Kat’s mess. We obviously don’t have documented evidence he was the one calling the shots between Mar 19 and Feb 24, but he wasn’t distant from the company. Also the last time he was CEO without Matjaž was in 2013 when they had 12 staff. So I’m not sure he has the experience to resolve this situation even if he was oblivious.
I think the only reason he took charge is because he seen that his equity was at risk. Which is going to be really hard as even if you clear him entirely of everything between Oct 17 and Feb 24 he still has three stikes in my book:
* He threatened Dan Henderson.
* He sat on the unpaid suppliers, contractors and maybe employees for almost 2 months.
* He published a misleading apology video.
Yeah… they ain’t coming back from this.